MO Teatro Storchi 
30 ottobre 2023
830pm
 
1 Hannigan-Gosling JUMA (30’)
2 HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGICK (20’)
[pausa 15 minuti]
3 Zorn CLASSIC GUIDE TO STRATEGY solo sax (15’)
4 SIMULACRUM (30’)
 
RE Teatro Municipale Valli 
31 ottobre 2023
6pm

2 Hannigan-Gosling duo (25’)
3 Hannigan-Gosling quartetto (10’)
[pausa 15 minuti, fino ca. 19.10]
4 SUITE FOR PIANO (45’)
5 New Masada (45’)


BO Santa Maria dei Servi 
31 ottobre
midnight
 
Zorn solo organo (30’)

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REGGIO EMILIA - Teatro Municipale Valli
31 ottobre 2023
6pm

1 SPLIT THE LARK - Barbara Hannigan-Steve Gosling duo (25’)

2 STAR CATCHER Barbara Hannigan quartetto (10’)
Barbara Hannigan/voice, Steve Gosling/piano, Jorge Roeder/bass, Ches Smith/drums

Three new lyrical compositions written expressly for the astonishingly soulful soprano Barbara Hannigan. Inspired by the surrealistic painter Leonora Carrington (Ab Eo Quod)—the American Poet Emily Dickinson (Split the Lark)—and the alchemical painter Remedios Varo (Star Catcher)—these are beautiful and lyrical song cycles filled with magic, drama, and plenty of mystery.

15 min break

3 SUITE FOR PIANO (40’)
Brian Marsella/piano, Jorge Roeder/bass, Ches Smith/drums

Inspired in part by the Goldberg Variations and Schoenberg’s solo piano music, “Suite For Piano” is Zorn’s very personal take on some of the oldest traditional classical forms. It is performed here by one of the most dedicated, virtuosic, and passionate interpreters in the Zorn universe, Brian Marsella, whose educational experience (too “jazz” for the classical world and too “classical” for the jazz world) makes him the perfect interpreter of Zorn’s cross-pollinating musical poetics. Accompanied by the telepathic rhythm section of Jorge Roeder and Ches Smith (Heaven and Earth Magick) this is a beautiful and soulful program of music for the classic instrumentation of piano, bass, and drums.



4 NEW MASADA QUARTET (40’)
John Zorn/alto sax, Julian Lage/guitar, Jorge Roeder/bass, Kenny Wollesen/drums

BOLOGNA - Santa Maria dei Servi
31 ottobre - midnight
JOHN ZORN/solo organ
 
 
OCTOBER 31 -  REGGIO EMILIA / BOLOGNA
 
7PM
 

HANNIGAN SINGS ZORN 2
 
—AB EO, QUOD     (2021)
barbara hannigan-voice
sae hashimoto-vibes
jay campbell-cello
ches smith-drums
 
—SPLIT THE LARK       (2021)   
barbara hannigan-voice
steve gosling-piano
 
—STAR CATCHER         (2022)
barbara hannigan-voice
steve gosling-piano
jorge roeder-bass
ches smith-drums
 
 
Three new lyrical compositions written expressly for the astonishingly soulful soprano Barbara Hannigan. Inspired by the surrealistic painter Leonora Carrington (Ab Eo Quod)—the American Poet Emily Dickinson (Split the Lark)—and the alchemical painter Remedios Varo (Star Catcher)—these are beautiful and lyrical song cycles filled with magic, drama, and plenty of mystery.
 
 
 
830PM
 
—SUITE FOR PIANO    (2022)
brian marsella-piano
jorge roeder-bass
ches smith-drums
 
 
Inspired in part by the Goldberg Variations and Schoenberg’s solo piano music, “Suite For Piano” is Zorn’s very personal take on some of the oldest traditional classical forms. It is performed here by one of the most dedicated, virtuosic, and passionate interpreters in the Zorn universe, Brian Marsella, whose educational experience (too “jazz” for the classical world and too “classical” for the jazz world) makes him the perfect interpreter of Zorn’s cross-pollinating musical poetics. Accompanied by the telepathic rhythm section of Jorge Roeder and Ches Smith (Heaven and Earth Magick) this is a beautiful and soulful program of music for the classic instrumentation of piano, bass, and drums.
 
 
 
—NEW MASADA QUARTET  
john zorn-sax
julian lage-guitar
jorge roeder-bass
kenny wollesen-drums
 
 
Established in 2019, New Masada Quartet is a tight unit of like-minded virtuosi and one of the best groups Zorn has ever had. Bristling hot guitar master Julian Lage, bass wizard Jorge Roeder and 30-year Zorn veteran Kenny Wollesen perform with a crackling live energy that brings the Masada music to life like never before. Led by Zorn’s versatile sax and stop and start conducting, the music is filled with burning solos, telepathic group interaction, heartfelt lyricism and hypnotic grooves. 
 
 
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BOLOGNA MIDNIGHT: Basilica Di Santa Maria Dei Servi
 
—THE HERMETIC ORGAN     30 min
john zorn-organ, sax
 
 
In 2011 Zorn surprised even his hardcore fans by initiating a new series of solo organ concerts in churches around the world. Drawing upon traditions as varied as Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Bach, Tournemire, Ives, Korla Pandit and The Phantom of the Opera, Zorn’s organ improvisations are transcendent, inspiring, ecstatic experiences, offering a direct line to the workings of his rich compositional imagination. The music is breathtakingly beautiful, and often distinguished by a spiritual mood that only a huge pipe organ can create. A perfect outlet for Zorn's dramatic sense of color and contrast, we hear the composer’s mind at work in all its bizarre permutations—huge blocks of sound, chords, clusters, counterpoint, drones, ostinatos, lyrical melodies and more—often all at the same time.